Google Apps

Google already has some big hitters on its application suite. Good reasons to use it: have a thin client accessing the web and suddenly you can give all of your teams (even shop floor staff) email accounts and access to documents. $50 including tech support? Pretty...

Consumer power

The Indy summarises key consumer activist activities. It’s both heartning (standing up to excessive bank charges – I’d rather pay for current accounts than be stiffed for overdrafts, for example) and depressing (not flying isn’t the best way to...

eBuyer – one to avoid?

I’ve found a couple of low prices on eBuyer recently. Let’s hope their practice of scalping other retailers won’t result in me not getting my stuff.

Russian maps

Amazing quality Russian cold war maps of the UK. Just how did they do it. Were our parents all spies?

24 torture is wrong

We’ve been finding the recent episodes of 24 a little heavy on the torture. And now we find that it is all rubbish anyhow. How can we trust another US series again?